Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then he did not fight to recover his own hold on safety , but strained at his slipping grip on the man , dragging him outwards . |
| 2 | Steel doors rose at their rear ends and heavily ammed men dropped to the ground . |
| 3 | She dotted her forefinger into a thick yellow pool on the table-top , licked it , winced at its fiery and concentrated taste . |
| 4 | She winced at his ruthless manipulation , and he moved forwards quickly , confounding her by kneeling and pulling away her hands , holding them by her sides , the weight of his body pressing against her as his mouth came inexorably closer towards her pulsating nipple . |
| 5 | In 1863 the 200-ton brig Comet sank at her Funchal anchorage , and in 1877 the schooner Patagonia went ashore near Ponta São Lourenço . |
| 6 | Again , as early as 1969 , it was Glenn Gould who , having seen some of the early Karajan/ Clouzot films of orchestral and choral music , rejoiced at their imaginative refutation of what he called the ‘ proscenium psychology ’ . |
| 7 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 8 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |
| 9 | He took the cheroot from his mouth and peered at its slobbered-on green end , as if it were a reptilian rump about to grow a new tail . |
| 10 | He peered at her wet face . |
| 11 | Her voice had grown jerky and breathless and she caught at his caressing hand . |
| 12 | The police officer gaped at his Swiss Police knife . |
| 13 | Meredith fumed at his liquefying eyes and the contemptuous curl of his sculpted mouth . |
| 14 | Buckmaster dabbed at his thin lips with his napkin . |
| 15 | She bridled at his autocratic tone . |
| 16 | SAS Institute Inc 's contribution to the proceedings will consist of five new component modules that will sit upon its base analysis and reporting software package , most already previewed at its European User conference in Vienna back in June ( UX No 387 ) . |
| 17 | Ruth nibbled at her coloured pencil . |
| 18 | Twoflower took out the golden disc that Rincewind had noticed before , squinted at its unseen face for a moment , muttered ‘ Thirty seconds should about do it , ’ and said brightly , ‘ Smile please ! ’ |
| 19 | She squinted at his sunstarred silhouette . |
| 20 | It 's your body , ’ she said , amazed at her good humour . |
| 21 | Is it important enough to drag him out of bed ? ’ she asked sarcastically , amazed at her inner strength . |
| 22 | Padding across the shaggy lawn in her slippers , she was accompanied by a tortoise-shell cat which repeatedly darted at her pink pom-poms . |
| 23 | Mrs Clamp nodded at her much-salted fish and sipped her tea . |
| 24 | Nothing memorable happened at their only meeting , in a Gloucestershire sanatorium , though Malcolm Muggeridge once remarked that he would have loved to see and hear them together , and it is still open to anyone to write an imaginary conversation of the event . |
| 25 | Lorton rinsed the lather from his skin and frowned at his clean-shaven face . |
| 26 | He licked at his damaged hand with his enormous soft pink tongue , just like a dog washing itself . |
| 27 | HERALD G-APWA arrived at its new home , the Museum of Berkshire Aviation on the former Woodley Aerodrome , Berks , on August 29 after a road journey from Southend Airport . |
| 28 | And so in 1967 the first Hercules arrived at its new home . |
| 29 | The often painful political processes by which feminists arrived at their anti-elitist linguistic norms has already been erased , and the norms themselves have been naturalised . |
| 30 | Purism was an exercise in reason and even the Dadaists arrived at their apparent absurdities by a process of rational thought . |